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Belarus: What you can do

It is maddening, that all the official statements by international community, calls to release the political prisoners, calls to stop violence against belarusian people, letters by celebrities – it has not, so far, helped situation one bit. this is a fascist regime that does just not care. so how an average person can help? here are some ideas:

1. spead information. we live in the world where so much is happening that event the most horrible events very quickly lose news value. but what is happening in Belraus, is happening RIGHT NOW, it’s not something that happened on Sunday and then everything became ok again. Right now more innocent people are being thrown to prison, right now lawyers cannot get access to their clients who are somewhere in KGB jail. Right now the authorities are staging cases against political leaders, activists, journalists and average people, like me and you, who just wanted to show that they exist. Please, don’t let it become ”yesterday news”.

– write letters of support, opinion letters and so on to your national and local newspapers and news channels

2. Demand from your governments actions against illegitimate regime in Belarus. It is not enough that they ”express their concern”. International community has to act now, before innocent people will be thrown to prison for years.

3. Help hundreds of repressed people in Belarus. Right now, there are about 700 people who have been sentenced in Belarus for not liking Lukashenka. Most of them are in jail, some got monetary fines, some are still detained and waiting for official charges. They need warm clothes, medicines, food, they need to pay lawyers. You can send them money by paypal (all bank-to-bank transfers from abroad are closely monitored in belarus). You can donate money with a credit card to a paypal account. Here are instructions how to send money (write ”donation” as the type of transfer):

4. You can send postcards to KGB jail, did you know that? If you want to send a Christams greetings or express your support, send postcards by express post to: Belarus, 220050 Minsk, Glavpochtampt (Main Post Office) P.O. Box 8, Surname Name (click on the link to see the full list of people detained by KGB). Sannikov and Khalip read english fluently, my father’s English skills are quite basic.